PIRAP: Intelligent Hybrid Approach for Secure Data Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The wireless sensor network (WSN) is a mobile adhoc network which has no support of infrastructure. The complexities in network management are critical to resolve even when choosing the cluster head is more efficient. From clustering procedure, appropriate cluster heads are selected with attention to energy saving among member nodes. When it comes to WSN security, trust-based cluster head selection is critical, assuming the cooperation of all sensor nodes. In light of this assumption, existing approaches were unable to assist in identifying the network’s ideal cluster head. Due to the dynamic topology and mobility of nodes in WSNs, security is a challenge. However, secrecy is often accomplished end-to-end via symmetric keys between two corresponding applications. The symmetric key is incompatible with the WSN environment. Additionally, the WSN nodes vary in their qualification for which portion of the data is accessible in which context. This work proposes an elliptic curve cryptography-enabled ciphertext policy attribute-based encryption (ECC-CP-ABE) algorithm for secure data transmission during intra-cluster communication and inter-cluster communication. In this work, we select a reliable node-based trust value mechanism and this reliable node acts as an attribute authority that inter-cluster provides a decryption private key to cluster members who are involved in intra- and inter-cluster communications. In ECC-CP-ABE, the cluster head node (CHN) and cluster member node (CMN) utilize CP-ABE for the encryption of network messages using an access policy matrix A that is computed from an AND–OR operation-based monotonic tree access structure which is defined over a various set of attributes. To ensure authenticity and integrity, the cluster member and CHN sign each ciphertext using an ECC algorithm. For performance evaluation, we use packet delivery ratio, energy consumption, encryption time, network lifetime, and decryption time as metric measures and compared the results of proposed ECC-CP-ABE with two benchmark methods, Secured WSN and Taylor-based Cat Salp Swarm Algorithm. From the results, we analyze that the proposed ECC-CP-ABE reduces energy consumption by 53.2%; increases packet delivery ratio by 98.6%; increases network lifespan by 97.5%, and reduces encryption time by 20[Formula: see text]s and decryption time by 15[Formula: see text]s.